DOCSLIB.ORG

Western Esotericism” 67 Liana Saif

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Western Esotericism” 67 Liana Saif New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Editorial Board Aaron W. Hughes (University of Rochester) Russell McCutcheon (University of Alabama) Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen) Volume 17 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/smtr New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism Edited by Egil Asprem Julian Strube This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The terms of the CC license apply only to the original material. The use of material from other sources (indicated by a reference) such as diagrams, illustrations, photos and text samples may require further permission from the respective copyright holder. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2060 “Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation” – 390726036; as well as by the Open Access Fund of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Cover illustration: mycelium, copyright Taviphoto. | Dreamstime.com, https://www.dreamstime.com/taviphoto_info Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Asprem, Egil, editor. | Strube, Julian, editor. Title: New approaches to the study of esotericism / edited by Egil Asprem, Julian Strube. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion, 2214-3270 ; volume 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2020048069 | ISBN 9789004446441 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004446458 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Occultism–Research–Methodology. Classification: LCC BF1439 .N49 2021 | DDC 130–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048069 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 2214-3270 ISBN 978-90-04-44644-1 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-44645-8 (e-book) Copyright 2021 by Egil Asprem and Julian Strube. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect this publication against unauthorized use. Requests for re-use and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill NV via brill.com or copyright.com. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents Notes on Contributors vii Esotericism’s Expanding Horizon: Why This Book Came to Be 1 Egil Asprem and Julian Strube Receptions of Revelations: A Future for the Study of Esotericism and Antiquity 20 Dylan Burns Towards the Study of Esotericism without the “Western”: Esotericism from the Perspective of a Global Religious History 45 Julian Strube “That I Did Love the Moor to Live with Him”: Islam in/and the Study of “Western Esotericism” 67 Liana Saif The Occult among the Aborigines of South America? Some Remarks on Race, Coloniality, and the West in the Study of Esotericism 88 Mariano Villalba “Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels”: Western Esotericism, Yoga, and the Discourse of Authenticity 109 Keith Cantú Rejected Knowledge Reconsidered: Some Methodological Notes on Esotericism and Marginality 127 Egil Asprem Race and (the Study of) Esotericism 147 Justine Bakker “What Can the Whole World Be Hiding?”: Exploring Africana Esotericisms in the American Soul-Blues Continuum 168 Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Stephen C. Finley vi Contents Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research 182 Manon Hedenborg White What Do Jade Eggs Tell Us about the Category “Esotericism”? Spirituality, Neoliberalism, Secrecy, and Commodities 201 Susannah Crockford Interpretation Reconsidered: The Definitional Progression in the Study of Esotericism as a Case in Point for the Varifocal Theory of Interpretation 217 Dimitry Okropiridze Afterword: Outlines of a New Roadmap 241 Egil Asprem and Julian Strube Index 253 Notes on Contributors Egil Asprem is Associate Professor in History of Religions at Stockholm University. He is the editor-in-chief of Aries and has published widely on esotericism and its study, including The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900–1939 (Brill, 2014). Justine M. Bakker is a postdoctoral fellow in Critical Philosophy of Race at Radboud University, Nijmegen (the Netherlands). In May 2020, she obtained her PhD in Religion from Rice University (Houston, TX) with a dissertation that aimed to rethink the categories of and relationship between “the human” and “religion.” Dylan M. Burns is a research associate at Freie Universität Berlin. He has published sev- eral books and many articles on Gnosticism, later Greek philosophy, early Christianity, and their modern reception, recently including New Antiquities (Equinox, 2019) and Did God Care? (Brill, 2020). Keith Cantú is a PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is an Associate Editor for Correspondences and, along with his forthcoming dissertation, is the author of “Sri Sabhapati Swami: Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism” (Palgrave, 2021). Susannah Crockford is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. Her first mono- graph, Ripples of the Universe: Seeking Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, will be published in Spring 2021 in the Class 200 list by the University of Chicago Press. With a PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics, her research interests focus on questions of religion and ecology, science and spir- ituality. On Twitter: @SusCrockford. Stephen C. Finley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African & African American Studies (AAAS) and Director of AAAS, who currently studies blackness and the paranormal. He is co-editor of Esotericism in African American Religious Expe- rience: “There Is a Mystery”… (Brill 2015). viii Notes on Contributors Manon Hedenborg White holds a PhD in the History of Religions from Uppsala University. She is the author of The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism (Oxford University Press, 2020). Dimitry Okropiridze is a research associate at Heidelberg University of Education and lecturer at the department for the Study of Religion at Heidelberg University. He has pub- lished widely on theoretical and transcultural topics in the study of religion and culture. Hugh R. Page, Jr. is Professor of Theology and Africana Studies and Vice President and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at Notre Dame University. He is co-editor of Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There Is a Mystery”… (Brill 2015). Liana Saif is a post-doctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute and Université Catholique de Louvain. Her research focuses on Islamic occult sciences and esotericism in a global context and exchanges between the Islamic world and the Latin West in medieval and early modern periods. Julian Strube is a Research Fellow at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published a range of monographs, edited volumes, and articles on the relationship be- tween religion, esotericism, and politics since the nineteenth century from a global historical perspective. Mariano Villalba is a PhD candidate in History of Religions at the University of Lausanne and École Pratique des Hautes Études. He is editor of Melancolia and has published a number of articles on esotericism in the Spanish Renaissance, Argentina, and Mexico. Esotericism’s Expanding Horizon: Why This Book Came to Be Egil Asprem and Julian Strube The academic study of esotericism is currently undergoing a phase of expan- sion and diversification. This is true whether we look at the topics, geographi- cal regions, and subject languages of new research projects in the field, at the disciplines involved in its study, or the demographic composition of its schol- ars. The past decade has seen monographs, anthologies, and journal special issues on topics such as African-American esotericism (Finley, Guillory and Page, eds., 2014), esotericism in South America (Bubello, 2010), esotericism in South Asia (Djurdjevic, 2014), esotericism in Scandinavia (Bogdan and Ham- mer, eds., 2016), global esotericism (Bogdan and Djurdjevic, 2014), contempo- rary esotericism (Asprem and Granholm, eds., 2013), esotericism in antiquity (Burns, ed., 2015), Islamic esotericism (Saif, 2019), cognitive approaches to es- otericism (Asprem and Davidsen, 2017), ethnographic approaches to esoteri- cism (Crockford and Asprem, 2018), feminist and queer analyses of esotericism (Hedenborg White, 2019), and so on. We see new forays into literary studies, art history, colonial and global history, history and sociology of science, the study of popular culture, and many other domains. The study of esotericism always had interdisciplinary aspirations, but recent years have accelerated this trend. With it comes an increased need for generalists in the field to read broadly across an expanding number of disciplines. Despite this onward rush into new territories and fields of inquiry, the central assumptions, terminology, and theoretical and
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Spiritual Ecology: on the Way to Ecological Existentialism
    religions Article Spiritual Ecology: On the Way to Ecological Existentialism Sam Mickey Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA; [email protected] Received: 17 September 2020; Accepted: 29 October 2020; Published: 4 November 2020 Abstract: Spiritual ecology is closely related to inquiries into religion and ecology, religion and nature, and religious environmentalism. This article presents considerations of the unique possibilities afforded by the idea of spiritual ecology. On one hand, these possibilities include problematic tendencies in some strands of contemporary spirituality, including anti-intellectualism, a lack of sociopolitical engagement, and complicity in a sense of happiness that is captured by capitalist enclosures and consumerist desires. On the other hand, spiritual ecology promises to involve an existential commitment to solidarity with nonhumans, and it gestures toward ways of knowing and interacting that are more inclusive than what is typically conveyed by the term “religion.” Much work on spiritual ecology is broadly pluralistic, leaving open the question of how to discern the difference between better and worse forms of spiritual ecology. This article affirms that pluralism while also distinguishing between the anti-intellectual, individualistic, and capitalistic possibilities of spiritual ecology from varieties of spiritual ecology that are on the way to what can be described as ecological existentialism or coexistentialism. Keywords: spirituality; existentialism; ecology; animism; pluralism; knowledge 1. Introduction Spiritual ecology, broadly conceived, refers to ways that individuals and communities orient their thinking, feeling, and acting in response to the intersection of religions and spiritualities with ecology, nature, and environmentalism. There are other ways of referring to this topic.
    [Show full text]
  • 151545957.Pdf
    Universit´ede Montr´eal Towards a Philosophical Reconstruction of the Dialogue between Modern Physics and Advaita Ved¯anta: An Inquiry into the Concepts of ¯ak¯a´sa, Vacuum and Reality par Jonathan Duquette Facult´ede th´eologie et de sciences des religions Th`ese pr´esent´ee `ala Facult´edes ´etudes sup´erieures en vue de l’obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en sciences des religions Septembre 2010 c Jonathan Duquette, 2010 Universit´ede Montr´eal Facult´edes ´etudes sup´erieures et postdoctorales Cette th`ese intitul´ee: Towards A Philosophical Reconstruction of the Dialogue between Modern Physics and Advaita Ved¯anta: An Inquiry into the Concepts of ¯ak¯a´sa, Vacuum and Reality pr´esent´ee par: Jonathan Duquette a ´et´e´evalu´ee par un jury compos´edes personnes suivantes: Patrice Brodeur, pr´esident-rapporteur Trichur S. Rukmani, directrice de recherche Normand Mousseau, codirecteur de recherche Solange Lefebvre, membre du jury Varadaraja Raman, examinateur externe Karine Bates, repr´esentante du doyen de la FESP ii Abstract Toward the end of the 19th century, the Hindu monk and reformer Swami Vivekananda claimed that modern science was inevitably converging towards Advaita Ved¯anta, an important philosophico-religious system in Hinduism. In the decades that followed, in the midst of the revolution occasioned by the emergence of Einstein’s relativity and quantum physics, a growing number of authors claimed to discover striking “par- allels” between Advaita Ved¯anta and modern physics. Such claims of convergence have continued to the present day, especially in relation to quantum physics. In this dissertation, an attempt is made to critically examine such claims by engaging a de- tailed comparative analysis of two concepts: ¯ak¯a´sa in Advaita Ved¯anta and vacuum in quantum physics.
    [Show full text]
  • Transcendent Philosophy an International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism Editor Transcendent Philosophy Is a Publication of the Seyed G
    Volume 9. December 2008 Transcendent Philosophy An International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism Editor Transcendent Philosophy is a publication of the Seyed G. Safavi London Academy of Iranian Studies and aims to SOAS, University of London, UK create a dialogue between Eastern, Western and Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism is published in Book Review Editor December. Contributions to Transcendent Sajjad H. Rizvi Philosophy do not necessarily reflect the views of the Exeter University, UK editorial board or the London Academy of Iranian Editorial Board Studies. Contributors are invited to submit papers on the G. A’awani, Iranian Institue of Philosophy, Iran following topics: Comparative studies on Islamic, A. Acikgenc, Fatih University, Turkey Eastern and Western schools of Philosophy, M. Araki, Islamic Centre England, UK Philosophical issues in history of Philosophy, Issues in contemporary Philosophy, Epistemology, S. Chan, SOAS University of London, UK Philosophy of mind and cognitive science, W. Chittick, State University of New York, USA Philosophy of science (physics, mathematics, R. Davari, Tehran University, Iran biology, psychology, etc), Logic and philosophical logic, Philosophy of language, Ethics and moral G. Dinani, Tehran University, Iran philosophy, Theology and philosophy of religion, P.S. Fosl, Transylvania University, USA Sufism and mysticism, Eschatology, Political M. Khamenei, SIPRIn, Iran Philosophy, Philosophy of Art and Metaphysics. B. Kuspinar, McGill University, Canada The mailing address of the Transcendent Philosophy is: H. Landolt, McGill University, Canada Dr S.G. Safavi O. Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA Journal of Transcendent Philosophy Y. Michot, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK 121 Royal Langford 2 Greville Road M. Mohaghegh-Damad, Beheshti University, Iran London NW6 5HT J.
    [Show full text]
  • ENGLISH Original: GERMAN R
    PC.SHDM.NGO/40/16 26 April 2016 Translation ENGLISH Original: GERMAN R. Possekel Berlin, April 2016 OSCE 14-15 April 2016 Policies and Strategies to Promote Tolerance and Non-Discrimination 1. Will we ever be able to get rid of all prejudices and stereotypes? Certainly not. What can we therefore actually achieve with education, for example? We talk about anti-Semitism, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia, gender-based discrimination, antiziganism, intolerance against Christians and Muslims, etc. This necessary separation into specific issues and the communication that it gives rise to creates – without us being able to prevent this – the impression that this is not so much an interconnected problem, but is rather about the problems of individual affected groups: black people, Jews, Sinti and Roma, the LGBT community, Muslims, etc. In spite of this, how can the topic be addressed as a problem that can affect any citizen directly? How can efforts to counter anti-Semitism, for example, help to tackle antiziganism or homophobia? How can efforts to counter Islamophobia, for example, help to tackle anti-Semitism? We need an explicitly “more political” concept of prejudices and/or stereotypes for this. Irrespective of the specific people who suffer such discrimination, the pattern, the fundamental problem, is always the same, namely the fact that individual people are denied their fundamental rights by being assigned to a group whose purported inferiority is established and considered to be legitimate. This is the degrading process, which variously affects Jews, Roma or Muslims, that discounts individuals with their beliefs and actions and reduces them to their membership of a group over which they have no influence.
    [Show full text]
  • Wayward Dark Tarot Book.Pdf
    Wayward Dark Tarot “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung In the imagery of the Wayward Dark Tarot are the archetypes and symbolism of Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot deck, mirrored and modified into a chthonic afterlife evoking the beautiful and the macabre. Familiarity with the Thoth Tarot will give you additional insight (and likely, additional critiques) of the Wayward Dark Tarot. Yet it should read on its own strengths as well. As it may be considered a fun house mirror of the Thoth deck, it is the same for your own inner thoughts and imagination. Look to the cards and you might discover a path to your subconscious paved through the archetypes of the Tarot. “​Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.” -Alejandro Jodorowsky There are many ways to use a Tarot Deck. It can be for card games like tarocchini, occult purposes like divination, and in pursuing improvement through self-reflection and self-work. There is no right and wrong way to use your deck, just so long as the way you use it is a way that works for you. This book provides card keywords and meanings for your own clarity. If you have a stronger association with a card that contradicts the meanings given here, then go by your own interpretation. Above all, this book is meant to be a helpful guide, not a dictator.
    [Show full text]
  • 20131008170625 20131008 Cliche Panel All Proposals
    ANTIZIGANISM CONFERENCE Main seminar: Third session 9:00 -11:00 am Session “Squaring the Circle of protection and empowerment” – 3 papers Chairs & Discussants: Matthew Kott & Timofey Agarin (we will do both together!) On the Transcendence of National Citizenship in the Light of the Case of Roma, an Allegedly Non-territorial Nation” Márton Rövid Central European University The Roma are increasingly seen as a group that challenges the principle of territorial democracy and the Westphalian international order. While diverse in customs, languages, church affiliations, and citizenship, the Roma can also be seen as members of a non-territorial nation. One international non-governmental organization, the International Romani Union, advanced claims for the recognition of the non-territorial Romani nation and advocated a general vision in which people are no longer represented on the basis of state. The manifesto “Declaration of Nation” claims that the Roma have survived for several centuries as distinct individuals and groups with a strong identity without creating a nation-state, so therefore, their example could help humanity find an alternative way to satisfy the need for identity without having to lock it to territorial boundaries. The paper studies theories of post-national citizenship in the light of the case of Roma. What are the empirical preconditions of the transcendence of liberal nationhood? Under what circumstances can claims of post-national citizenship be justified? To what extent do transnational social, religious, and ethnic movements challenge the foundations of the so-called Westphalian international order, in particular the trinity of state-nation-territory? What forms of political participation do they claim? Do transnational nations pose a different challenge to normative political theory than other transnational communities? By studying the case of Roma, the paper relates the literature on diasporas and global civil society to cosmopolitan theories thus offering a new typology of boundary problems.
    [Show full text]
  • Hard Racism’: Studying Antigypsyism As an Ideological Fantasy
    4 68 • 2020 ARTICLES Envy, Corruption and ‘Hard Racism’: Studying Antigypsyism as an Ideological Fantasy VÁCLAV WALACH DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/se-2020-0019 © Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie SAV © 2020, Václav Walach. This is an open access licensed under the Creative Commons Václav Walach, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Na Příkopě 584/29, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic; e-mail: vaclav.walach@ ff.cuni.cz Antigypsyism has been frequently said to be a racist ideology. However, although some studies have engaged with the ‘racist’ component of the thesis, almost no work has been done in terms of specifying what ideology is and how a certain conception of it can enhance the understanding of antigypsyism both as a concept and empirical phenomenon. is paper explores the potential of the Lacanian theory of ideology as exemplified by Slavoj Žižek for developing antigypsyism research. Overcoming the problem of false consciousness, Žižek’s conception offers an analytical framework that allows re-examining and elaborating on certain issues from the perspective which weaves social and psychic realities without falling into the traps of psychological reductionism. To illustrate this, this paper presents a Žižekian analysis of three issues that correspond to different aspects of the antigypsyist phenomenon identified via ethnographic research among the non-Roma inhabitants of a declining neighbourhood with a significant Roma presence in Czechia. e issues are called envy, corruption and ‘hard racism’. Keywords: antigypsyism, anti-Roma racism, Roma, ideology, fantasy, Žižek How to cite : Walach, V. (2020). Envy, Corruption and ‘Hard Racism’: Studying Antigypsyism as an Ideological Fantasy.
    [Show full text]
  • 'Science and Religion' Is
    Investigating the ‘Science’ in ‘Eastern Religions’: A methodological inquiry The trope of ‘science and religion’ is usually employed in western academic circles as a shorthand for the historical narratives and the philosophical analyses of the various overlaps, oppositions, and disjunctions between empirical scientific methodologies and specifically Christian doctrines of God, creation, and redemption. Over the last five decades or so, the key terms ‘science’ and ‘religion’, understood in terms of these referents, have been minutely scrutinised, and various typologies of the relations, some more amicable than the others, between these categories have been proposed. More recently, the rubric of ‘Eastern Religions’ has sometimes been added to these discussions, where this category encompasses diverse spiritual strands which have received varying degrees of scholarly attention. The engagements of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhisms with quantum physics and neurobiology have been quite extensively studied, and various interpretations of the empirical sciences have been offered also from certain Hindu Vedantic perspectives. From a historical perspective, there is a conceptual-institutional divergence between the discourses of ‘science and Christianity’ and of ‘science and eastern religions’, in that while European science and Christianity emerged from a common intellectual and institutional matrix of post- Reformation cultures, and were thus crucially shaped by their mutual borrowings and hostilities, European science is a more recent arrival in various
    [Show full text]
  • Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) Ellen P
    Florida International University FIU Digital Commons FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations University Graduate School 11-13-2014 Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) Ellen P. Randolph Florida International University, [email protected] DOI: 10.25148/etd.FI14110766 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, History of Religions of Western Origin Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, New Religious Movements Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Randolph, Ellen P., "Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.)" (2014). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1686. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1686 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the University Graduate School at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Miami, Florida GNOSTICISM, TRANSFORMATION, AND THE ROLE OF THE FEMININE IN THE GNOSTIC MASS OF THE ECCLESIA GNOSTICA CATHOLICA (E.G.C.) A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in RELIGIOUS STUDIES by Ellen P. Randolph 2014 To: Interim Dean Michael R. Heithaus College of Arts and Sciences This thesis, written by Ellen P. Randolph, and entitled Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.), having been approved in respect to style and intellectual content, is referred to you for judgment.
    [Show full text]
  • Antiziganisms Ethnographic Engagements in Europe
    2017 ⎸ANUAC. VOL. 6, N° 1, GIUGNO 2017: 99-117 SEZIONE TEMATICA Antiziganisms Ethnographic engagements in Europe Sabrina TOSI CAMBINI Università di Firenze Giuseppe BELUSCHI FABENI Universidad de Granada ABSTRACT: Parallel to the interest in Roma at the social and political level, Antizigan- ism has rapidly gained the interest of social sciences since 2000. A copious litera- ture has contributed to decisive breakthroughs in defining the concept and identify- ing its roots in the history of Europe. However, the debate has mostly developed with “Antiziganism” in singular declension, with the frequent merging together of cases originating in different contexts. After a speedy evolution, theorization shows signs of entering conceptualization redundancy. This thematic section wishes to move beyond the currently prevailing top-down reflection on Antiziganism. It offers the results of public anthropology and interdisciplinary research-actions, carried on in local contexts, in spaces of interaction between the Roma and the non-Roma, and by ethnographers intervening to promote a change. Ethnography of “Antiziga- nisms” and of the practices which counteract them offer opportunities for revealing the link between antiziganism and other forms of racism, the cognitive and emo- tional experience of the subjects at play in the specific field and the fuzziness of the dividing lines between their agency. It is finally a chance to experiment with the ap- plicability, adaptability and transferability of disciplinary knowledge. KEYWORDS: RACISM, ROMANI STUDIES, PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY, CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons © Sabrina Tosi Cambini, Giuseppe Beluschi Fabeni Antiziganism: Ethnographic engagements in Europe 2017 ⎸ANUAC. VOL. 6, N° 1, GIUGNO 2017: 99-117.
    [Show full text]
  • An Exploratory Study of Women's Involvement in New Age Spirituality in Turkey
    IBN HALDUN UNIVERSITY ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS INSTITUTE DEPARTMENT OF CIVILIZATION STUDIES MASTER THESIS AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF WOMEN’S INVOLVEMENT IN NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY IN TURKEY FATEMAH MASHAEL THESIS SUPERVISOR: DR. ÖNDER KÜÇÜKURAL ISTANBUL, 2020 IBN HALDUN UNIVERSITY ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS INSTITUTE DEPARTMENT OF CIVILIZATION STUDIES MASTER THESIS AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF WOMEN’S INVOLVEMENT IN NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY IN TURKEY by FATEMAH MASHAEL A thesis submitted to the Alliance of Civilizations Institute in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Civilization Studies THESIS SUPERVISOR: DR. ÖNDER KÜÇÜKURAL ISTANBUL, 2020 ONAY SAYFASI Bu tez tarafımızca okunmuş olup kapsam ve nitelik açısından, Medeniyet Araştırmaları alanında Yüksek Lisans Derecesini alabilmek için yeterli olduğuna karar verilmiştir. Tez Jürisi Üyeleri: KANAATİ İMZA Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Önder Küçükural ______________ _______________________ (Tez Danışmanı) _____________ ________________________ Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Kurtuluş Cengiz Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Nursem Keskin _____________ ________________________ Aksay Bu tezin İbn Haldun Üniversitesi Medeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü tarafından konulan tüm standartlara uygun şekilde yazıldığı teyit edilmiştir. Tarih Mühür/İmza AKADEMİK DÜRÜSTLÜK BEYANI Bu çalışmada yer alan tüm bilgilerin akademik kurallara ve etik ilkelere uygun olarak toplanıp sunulduğunu, söz konusu kurallar ve ilkelerin zorunlu kıldığı çerçevede, çalışmada özgün olmayan tüm bilgi ve belgelere, alıntılama standartlarına uygun olarak referans
    [Show full text]
  • Theology of Supernatural
    religions Article Theology of Supernatural Pavel Nosachev School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, HSE University, 101000 Moscow, Russia; [email protected] Received: 15 October 2020; Accepted: 1 December 2020; Published: 4 December 2020 Abstract: The main research issues of the article are the determination of the genesis of theology created in Supernatural and the understanding of ways in which this show transforms a traditional Christian theological narrative. The methodological framework of the article, on the one hand, is the theory of the occulture (C. Partridge), and on the other, the narrative theory proposed in U. Eco’s semiotic model. C. Partridge successfully described modern religious popular culture as a coexistence of abstract Eastern good (the idea of the transcendent Absolute, self-spirituality) and Western personified evil. The ideal confirmation of this thesis is Supernatural, since it was the bricolage game with images of Christian evil that became the cornerstone of its popularity. In the 15 seasons of its existence, Supernatural, conceived as a story of two evil-hunting brothers wrapped in a collection of urban legends, has turned into a global panorama of world demonology while touching on the nature of evil, the world order, theodicy, the image of God, etc. In fact, this show creates a new demonology, angelology, and eschatology. The article states that the narrative topics of Supernatural are based on two themes, i.e., the theology of the spiritual war of the third wave of charismatic Protestantism and the occult outlooks derived from Emmanuel Swedenborg’s system. The main topic of this article is the role of monotheistic mythology in Supernatural.
    [Show full text]